Garment supporter



Q. D. SCOT.

GARMEN SUPPORTER. A PPLICATION EILED MA Y 24. 1921.

Patented Jim. 10, 1922.

INVENTR.

QUINCY :n SCOTT, OEOLUMB s I GABMENT SUPPORTER.

Application filed May 24,

To aZZ whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, QUINCY D. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States of America residing at Columbus, in the County of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Garment Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to garment Supporters, and more particularly to a garment hook, my object being the provision of a Simple inexpensive and highly efiicient device which may be formed of wire and in this way conveniently provided with springs to render the same yieldingly elastic, and which is capable of use in various ways and of application with ease and 'acility In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a view showing the use of my invention in connection with suspenders,

Figure 2 is a side view showing its prac tical application in use,

Figure 3 is an elevation of my improved invention removed,

Figure 4 is a side view thereof, and

Figures 5 and 6 are elevations showing the device in different fleXed positions.

Referring now to these figures my invention proposes an elastic supporter formed from a single piece of wire embodying a. central cross bar 10 from the opposite ends of which side sections extend at an angle, these side sections being referably bent inwardly toward one another adjacent to the Cross bar 10 so as to form a partial loop adjacent to the Cross bar in order to confine suspender straps and the like.

Each of the side sections includes an inner straight portion 11 and an outer straight portion 12 in angular relation to one an- Other, connected by a coil 13 disposed at the angle between these inner and outer portions. The angular relationship of the inner and outer portions of the two side sections brings the outer portions 12 into the overlapping relation plainly seen in Figures 1, 2 and 3 in particular and these outer sections terminate in the hooks 14, which may engage the shanks of buttons 15 of a garment 16 to be supported as in Figure 2 Or'may be ntilized to receive pinched portions of a,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 10, 1922.

1921. Serial No. 472,132.

garment as for instance if the supporter proposed by my invention is used in connection with stockings.

The Cross bar 10 may of course be secured to an upper garment for engagement with portions of a lower garment or may receive straps as for instance overall straps 17 run ning loosely around the Cross bar or may be secured to the ends of suspender straps 18 as in Figure 1, it being obvious that in the last described use my improved supporter will by virtue ofits elasticity permit of suspender straps otherwise inelastic and avoid elastic sections Or cords which commonly wear quickly and deteriorate much more rapidly than the remaining portions of suspenders. o

It is also quite obvious that by virtue of the freely extending side sections of my improved supporter in the angular relationship and with the connecting coils at the point of angle therebetween, the supporter as a whole in use may readily yield under tension to both Vertical strains lengthwise of the sup porter as seen by reference to F igure 5 and angular strains as in Figure 6.

My invention is thus capable of wide and varied use in connection with the support of garments, may be readily and quickly applied, will avoid the necessity for the working of buttonholes and may be applied with ease and facility wherever button engaging tabs are now used.

I claim:

l. A garment supporter of the character described formed'from a single section of wire having a central Cross bar, side sections eXtending angularly from opposite ends of said Cross bar and each including angular inner and outer portions and a spring coil at the point of angle between said portions, the inner portions being inclined outwardly from the Cross bar to the coils, and the outer portions being inclined inwardly in crossed relation from the coils and having terminal hooks as and for the purpose described. i

2. A garment supporter of the character described formed from. a single section of wire having a central Cross bar, angular side sectionsincluding inner and outer straight portions the former of which have acute angles adjacent to the Cross bar and project= tions of the side Sections being nclned nwardly from the coils and in crossed relation and having terminal hooks as and for the purpose described.

In testmony whereof I have affixed my Signature.

QUINCY D. SCOTT. 

